Normal People

Honestly I just did not like this. Two stars because I didn't absolutely loathe it and read the entire thing. To be up front, this book is not about what I thought it was about and now I just think it's a bit funny. I brought this to the beach because I thought it would be cute and upbeat and boy was I wrong.

I absolutely resented the fact that there were no quotation marks. Petty, I know, but I was confused at far too many points in this book because of the lack of quotation marks. I also just did not understand the rationale behind it, so if someone would like to enlighten me to the purpose behind them, it would be much appreciated.

At the end of the day, Connell and Marianne were boring and pretentious. I didn't particularly care for them or any of the characters and it made it difficult to enjoy this book.

There was so much hype about this book and for the life of me I can't understand why. It was fine, I can see why some people would like it, but I didn't feel that it was particularly ground-breaking or remarkable.